Attachment for hat-stands.



ATTACHMENT FOR HAT STANDS.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 29, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ATTACHMENT FOR HAT-STANDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 777,480, dated December 13, 1904.

Applieati0n filed June 28, 1904;. Serial No. 214,493. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGIANA M. Moononor'r, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain Improvements in At taehments for Hat-Stands, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

The present invention relates to stands or supports for hats em ployed especially to hold the hats of women and girls when they are displayed in stores upon counters or in windows. At present a standard is employed consisting of a pedestal having an enlarged head upon which the hat is placed, and sometimes it is secured to the said head by hatpins. Great difficulty is found in making the hats secure upon such standards, as they become dislodged 'and fall from the stands when the same are jostled or when a strong draft of air passes over them.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable attachment which may be applied to the ordinary hat stand or support and which will retain the hat upon the stand in a per fectly safe rigid manner.

The attachment is so devised that it may be adjusted to any of the stands in use; and it consists of a clamp to embrace the upper part nating in abutments adapted to press against the inner walls of the hat with an automatically-adjustable spring-pressure and firmly hold the same in place untilreleased, all of which I will now proceed to describe, and point out in the claims.

In the drawings, which form a part and illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of a hat-stand upon which is represented in section a hat of what is known as a sailor pattern. Fig. 1 is a plan view of an attachment for a hat-stand. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a plan and edge view of a form of hat-stand attachment, and Figs. 4 and i} are respectively a plan and edge view of another form of attachment for the purpose stated.

Referring to the figures, (t represents a wooden stand consisting of a pedestal with a suitable base and with a hemisphere 1 upon its top, which may be covered with velvet or provided with pins to make its surface rough pedestal.

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be displayed in stores, and, as stated, great difiiculty is experienced in keeping the hats securely upon them. Oftentlmes the top 1 is covered with tissue-paper and the hat crowded.

upon the same, and hatpins are inserted through the walls of the hat into the velvet upon the head or into the tissue-paper,-which provides a very insecure support for the hat and is liable to injure the hat.

A represents my improved attachment.

end a curved abutment 8, and intermediate of the abutment and the clamp the rod, which is This constitutes the usual form of support for ladies hats when they are to of resilient material, is bent into a reversefi shape in order that the arm 9 may be compressed and shortened by the pressure of the hand to adjust the distance from one abutment to another. To attach the clamp to the stand, the bolt is removed and the extensions 3 3 are passed on each side of the upper part 20f the The screw is then inserted and the thumb-nut set up hard. The clamp is made with the extensions sufficiently wide apart, so that it can be applied upon a wide range of diameters of standards or pedestals. When a hat it is to he placed upon the attachment A, the parallel springs 10 are compressed, so that the distance between the abutments 8 S is shortened, and the attachment then inserted into the hat, so that when the springs are released the abutments will press by the resiliency of the SIHlDg-IOd 9 against the opposite inner walls of the hat and hold the same firmly to the stand.

The modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3 is represented as made from a thin ribbon of re silient metal bent at its central part to form a spring-clamp 6, adapted to be forced upon the stand-rod 2 at the opening 11 11 and is made in a shape to fit a variety of diameters. The arms or ends 7 of the ribbon are curved outward and then abruptly turned inward, as at 12, and the extreme end is bent back upon itself and then downward, as at 13, to form handles or finger-holds, by which the ends 12 can be compressed inward, so that they may be inserted inside the hat-body.

In the modification represented by Figs. i and 5 the clamp is made of two flat pieces of metal plate hollowed out in their centers to grasp the upper part 2 of the stand and at their ends are provided with bolts 15, having the thumb-nuts 16, by means of which the plates are clamped to the stand, and soldered to the opposite and respective ends of the plates 1 are the wires 7 which are bent outward and inward, as at 12, and their extreme ends bent downward to form handles or fingerholds 13, by means of which the springs 7" are compressed, as indicated in the description of the previous figures.

It will be seen that in all the constructions shown in the figures the abutments 8, 8*, and 8 are forced inward and outward in a horizontal plane by the adjustable spring-pressure, and it will be evident that in the forms shown in Figs. 2 and 4: one side may be made rigid and the other side made resilient, as indicated in Fig. 1. A desideratum in a device for this purpose is that it shall be entirely concealed within the body of the hat, and therefore there will be nothing to detract from the appearance of the hat, which is the thing to be displayed, advertised, and sold.

Having fully described the invention, I claim-v 1. As an article of manufacture, a detachable device for the pedestal of ahat-stand, consisting of an adjustable clamp from which extend on opposlte sides horizontal arms termimating in abutments, one of the arms being resilient and therefore adjustable, the clamp and arms being in the same horizontal plane.

2. The combination with a hat pedestal or support, of a detachable device, consisting of a clamp from which extend horizontal arms terminating in abutments, one of the arms being resilient and therefore adjustable, the clamp and the arms being in the same horizontal plane.

3. The combination with a hat stand or support, of a device adapted to be adjustably secured to the stand near its upper end by a clamp consisting of plates secured to each other by screw-bolts, and having means for supporting a hat consisting of two curved resilient wires secured to the said clamp, all in one horizontal plane, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a hat stand or support, of a hat-holding device adjustably secured to the stand near its upper end by a clamp consisting of two plates adapted to embrace the said stand and secured to each other by screw-bolts, and having means for supporting a hat consisting of two curved resilient arms attached respectively to the said plates and outwardly terminating in abutments adapted to press against the inner walls of a hat, all in one horizontal plane, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification,in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 27th day of June, 1904.

GEORGIANA M. MOOROROFT.

WVitnesses:

GEORGE F. MILLIKEN, GEO. VVILLIs PIERCE. 

